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Displaying from Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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October 2016
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Wednesday 19 |
A public lecture by Lino Pertile, the Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University.
Is there a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or a woman ceases to be a human being? A point beyond which our spirit dies and only pure (...)
18:15 - FREE LECTURE - School of Music presents - The 2016 Callaway Lecture: Martyn Evans : Music, embodiment and the imagination – for good or ill
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The Callaway Lecture is one of the most prestigious events on the School of Music calendar. Over the last two decades, a host of distinguished speakers have taken to the podium to deliver their thoughts on subjects as broad ranging as the effects of music on the mind, and the place of music in the (...)
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Thursday 20 |
The ‘transition to retirement’ (TTR) option is a government initiative which recognises that members may want to decrease their working hours over time towards the end of their career. It allows members to access their super benefits as an income stream prior to retirement. Some members use it (...)
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Friday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Generalised quadrangles and simple groups
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 21 October in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Tomasz Popiel (UWA)
Title: Generalised quadrangles and simple groups
Abstract: Generalised quadrangles (GQs) with point-regular automorphism groups have been studied since at least 1992, when Dina (...)
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Monday 24 |
The 2016 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas will focus on the theme ‘Framing the West’.
Hosted by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, ‘Framing the West’ will address the ways in which understandings, ideas and imaginings about Western Australia have been shaped and framed by (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations II
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - UN World Food Day and SDG2 free event : Wed26 October 5:30pm @ Rio Tinto Theatrette, Perth, WA:https://www.facebook.com/events/627188600785729/
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Next Wed26 October at 5:30pm we will be having a free wonderful event focused on promoting UN World Food Day and UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 to ' End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition plus promoting sustainable agriculture' from a WA perspective.
Here is the (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The How and the Why of Live Cells Imaging in the Retina : current trends in the clinical and basic research
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A public lecture by Robert J. Zawadzki, Assistant Research Professor, Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis.
Routine imaging of live cells in the human eye is one of the great achievements of modern Optical Engineering that has been just recently accomplished in both clinical (...)
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Thursday 27 |
What is Open Access? An overview of OA plus an update on the latest global and local developments
Open Access publishing offers benefits to individual researchers and to the wider community, and key Australian funding agencies have mandates supporting it. If you have heard the term but (...)
Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium. This will be the first talk by our newly appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics, please come along to welcome Professor Abarzhi to the School.
Talk title: Rayleigh-Taylor instability and interfacial mixing < (...)
Building on the specular concerts in the past two years, the UWA School of Music students again join with St Mary’s Cathedral for a night of mystery, majesty and divine music.
The program includes Samuel Barber’s deeply reflective Agnus Dei (originally the Adagio for Strings used as the (...)
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Friday 28 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Free Lunchtime Concert: Pi�ata Percussion
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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School. Free entry - no bookings required! This week Piñata Percussion will perform a variety of works on 'Mostly Marimba'
13:00 - EVENT - Video Feedback: Engage students & enhance their learning experience : Helping provide a higher quality of feedback in the same amount of time.
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Research indicates the provision of video feedback on student assessments results in an overwhelmingly positive impact on engagement, performance and overall perception of the unit and its coordinator. Join Learning Technologists Liberty Cramer and Michelle Bunting from the Centre for Education (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Simple automorphic loops
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 28 October in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Michael Giudici (UWA)
Title: Simple automorphic loops
Abstract: A loop is a set Q with binary operation * such that the Cayley
table for * is a Latin square and there is a neutral element 1 such (...)
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Fridays@5: Pi�ata Percussion - Mostly Marimba
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The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents - Enrich! Glee Club, Ukulele and Percussion Sensation
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The School of Music offers a number of stimulating and enjoyable broadening units for all undergraduates studying at UWA.
Enrich! brings together these students in vibrant and dynamic ensemble performances.
This Friday the massive 70 plus member Ukulele Ensemble will be (...)
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Monday 31 |
17:00 - EVENT - Psychology colloquium: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)
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Psychology Colloquium
Monday 31st October 5-6pm in Bayliss MCS G.33, followed by post-talk drinks in the Psychology Courtyard (or, in bad weather, the Psychology Common Room, 2nd floor of main psychology building)
Presenter: Prof John Dunn (Adelaide)
Title: Testing (...)
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November 2016
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Tuesday 01 |
10:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Archaeology Honours & Postgraduate Information Session : For all students interested in pursuing a career in Archaeology and cognate fields
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> Honours is regarded as the minimum qualification to call oneself an ‘archaeologist’.
> Wide range of dissertation topics available (Honours, Masters & PhD).
> Explanation of how the Honours year works (and also Masters and PhD).
> Information on what funding and resources are (...)
Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium. This special event is due to the visit of Professor Rod Gover from the University of Auckland. Please come along to hear about some interesting developments in mathematical physics.
Talk title: Conformal geometry (...)
17:00 - SEMINAR - School of Music presents � Free Research Seminar : Honours Presentations III
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UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)
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